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so sordid and commercial, but also that you felt that I was slipping in my esteem for the real significance and importance of your work. If I had had any sense, I could have, and should have, written my letter about the $3000 allowance from your note so that you would not have misunderstood me. But, even though my letter (which was a delicate one to write, as I knew) did not make itself clear, it wasn't a bit like you, old friend, to get your wires crossed that way. What happened, as you must realize now, was that we were writing about two very different things. My letter was (necessarily as I thought) about the market values of Here and Now; your reply was about the critical values of the ultimate Future. The "Here and Now" does crowd itself in sometimes. It did that, for example, when you wanted the cash from somebody for the two newspapers. It is bound to do it when people are trying, as I was in my letter to you, to get at?